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#1 2008-04-30 20:39:50

keratos
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Registered: 2008-04-27
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sopcast

hi!

does anyone know how to get sopcast working on linux?

I used to have this running under the "other" O/S.

I have downloaed qsopcast from the repo but have no idea how to use it on Arch: There are no instructions nor man page for what I can gather.

???

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#2 2008-04-30 22:05:39

phabulosa
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From: Mountain View, CA
Registered: 2007-10-17
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Re: sopcast

what did you do? If you installed qsopcast by pacman, you can just run "qsopcast" from shell.
You may have to change the channel list URL in config to
http://www.sopcast.com/chlist.xml

Last edited by phabulosa (2008-04-30 22:41:32)

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#3 2008-04-30 22:53:31

Demind
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Registered: 2007-07-10
Posts: 111

Re: sopcast

If i'm right (i maintain the x86_64 binary) when you finish installing sopcast you can read on the console the instruction to make it works from command line:

sp-sc sop://yoursopchannel 3908 8908

then in another console open a media player (vlc , totem , mplayer...) with:

vlc/mplayer/totem http://localhost:8908

i don't use the GUI, in my opinioni is useless...command line is simpler and faster

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#4 2008-05-01 00:10:40

imagelife
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From: China
Registered: 2008-01-10
Posts: 49

Re: sopcast

hi guys, in GUI, you can use gsopcast(A GTK front-end of p2p TV sopcast) ,
just install it by pacman smile


just want to tell you!…………

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#5 2008-05-01 06:12:06

keratos
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Registered: 2008-04-27
Posts: 138

Re: sopcast

thanks guys for all the info.

phabulosa: you were spot on - the config needed changing because until modified, no channels were showing.

Demind: havent used vlc. Does it have any buffering because the default mplayer is blocky and jerky (dropped frames). My downstream speed is 7.5MBit so no issues with the net. I can play movie trailers in a web player no prob so its not my net speed. Are the known issues with sopcast?

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#6 2008-05-01 10:37:22

Demind
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Registered: 2007-07-10
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Re: sopcast

keratos wrote:

thanks guys for all the info.
Demind: havent used vlc. Does it have any buffering because the default mplayer is blocky and jerky (dropped frames). My downstream speed is 7.5MBit so no issues with the net. I can play movie trailers in a web player no prob so its not my net speed. Are the known issues with sopcast?

I have a 4MBit as download speed and use vlc/mplayer without problem...i've never heard of buffering problems, but you could try vlc and see if the problem remains and then we could try to understand what's the problem.

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#7 2008-05-03 10:25:49

keratos
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Registered: 2008-04-27
Posts: 138

Re: sopcast

Demind wrote:
keratos wrote:

thanks guys for all the info.
Demind: havent used vlc. Does it have any buffering because the default mplayer is blocky and jerky (dropped frames). My downstream speed is 7.5MBit so no issues with the net. I can play movie trailers in a web player no prob so its not my net speed. Are the known issues with sopcast?

I have a 4MBit as download speed and use vlc/mplayer without problem...i've never heard of buffering problems, but you could try vlc and see if the problem remains and then we could try to understand what's the problem.

Acknowledged. I will install vlc and do some debugging in order to gather data for subsequent post.

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#8 2008-06-14 19:27:07

chickamade
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Registered: 2008-06-14
Posts: 2

Re: sopcast

I wrote this for an effortless setup, plus the ability to open multiple stream en masse. Check it out!

https://launchpad.net/sopcast.sh

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